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Russian Meteor Not Related to Asteroid Flyby, NASA Confirms
A meteorite flashes across the sky over Chelyabinsk, Russia, taken from a dashboard camera.
The meteor that streaked over the skies of Russia — creating a shockwave that shattered windows, injuring upwards of 1,000 people — is not related to the asteroid that will whiz past Earth later today, (Feb.15), NASA has confirmed.
As many of our readers have noted in comments on our previous story on the Russian meteor, the trajectory of the Russian meteorite was significantly different than the trajectory of the asteroid 2012 DA14, making it a completely unrelated object.
“Information is still being collected about the Russian meteorite and analysis is preliminary at this point,” NASA said in a statement. “In videos of the meteor, it is seen to pass from left to right in front of the rising sun, which means it was traveling from north to south. Asteroid DA14′s trajectory is in the opposite direction, from south to north.”
Images and video of the Russian bolide taken from satellites in Earth orbit confirm the trajectory:
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2013-02-15 10:00:21
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If this is true it’s actually hilarious, don’t worry guys asteroid da14 won’t hit… But this one will! haha irony runs the universe.